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Since their foundation 23 years ago, the Rhodes scholarships at Oxford for U. S. students have increased-due to wise investment-from ?300 to ?350 and finally to ?400 (12,000) (TIME, Oct. 5). The Rhodes trustees have also, lately, been in a position to undertake the erection of a...
"The Poetry of Alfred Noyes and Rudyard Kipling", Professor Lowes, Germanic Museum 1, English 26.
From his quiet home at Bateman's Burwash, Sussex, Mr. Rudyard Kipling (cousin of Premier Stanley Baldwin, their mothers having been two of the four famed Macdonald sisters) contributed some verses to the British Gazette, the Government's emergency anti-strike newspaper:
While these lines might indeed achieve a noble and sonorous effect when sung by a great chorus, sincere admirers of Kipling sadly reflected that a generation has passed since his genius alone was sufficient to set mighty rhythms beating in the blood of even his calmest readers.*
It is unnecessary and inappropriate?for Havelock Ellis is neither sensational nor combative?to suggest, as does his flamboyant biographer, that he is another Leonardo, a Professor, a Nietzschean superman, an Anglo-Saxon Tagore, a full-blooded Shaw, a Carlyle without dyspepsia, "a less unkempt Walt Whitman," "a less distracted...